Talking to Strangers: What We Should Know about the People We Don't Know [B0613]

2021 PB. Malcolm Gladwell, host of the podcast 'Revisionist History' and author of the #1 New York Times bestseller Outliers, offers a powerful examination of our interactions with strangers--and why they often go wrong. A Best Book of the Year: The Financial Times, Bloomberg, Chicago Tribune, and Detroit Free Press. How did Fidel Castro fool the CIA for a generation? Why did Neville Chamberlain think he could trust Adolf Hitler? Why are campus sexual assaults on the rise? Do television sitcoms teach us something about the way we relate to one another that isn't true? Talking to Strangers is a classically Gladwellian intellectual adventure, a challenging and controversial excursion through history, psychology, and scandals taken straight from the news. He revisits the deceptions of Bernie Madoff, the trial of Amanda Knox, the suicide of Sylvia Plath, the Jerry Sandusky pedophilia scandal at Penn State University, and the death of Sandra Bland--throwing our understanding of these and other stories into doubt. Something is very wrong, Gladwell argues, with the tools and strategies we use to make sense of people we don't know. And because we don't know how to talk to strangers, we are inviting conflict and misunderstanding in ways that have a profound effect on our lives and our world. In his first book since his #1 bestseller David and Goliath, Malcolm Gladwell has written a gripping guidebook for troubled times.

From recent Amazon/GoodReads reviews: "Quite interesting book. A different perspective to some deep issues in society e.g., black lives matter."; "I liked the book. I think it could be called "Talking to Strangers and Knowing When They're Lying." It's a book full of stories and examples of famous people who couldn't read a stranger's intentions."; "I think this book is fabulous. I learned so much about how and why we fail to understand others and the implications of those failures that I was just astounded. Sometimes chilling, frequently illuminating, I found myself saying "huh, I didn't know that!" more than one time. If this isn't on your TBR list, I recommend adding it!"